A study by leading animal charity Battersea has shown how we have relied on our cats and dogs while working from home as they help our mental health and play a vital role in maintaining productivity and morale

Photographer Jill Mead has been meeting the staff, volunteers and foster carers of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, who have taken in animals during the coronavirus crisis while they are found permanent homes
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home has a network of more than 1,000 volunteers and foster carers to call on when necessary.

With her clashing animal prints and penchant for comfort over taste, the drama’s new character is the perfect lockdown fashion icon
When Sam Perry was pulling together costumes for season three of Killing Eve last year, she wasn’t to know that, come April, tens of millions of us would have watched a show called Tiger King about the big cats and bigger characters of the US’s exotic wildlife scene.